An InfiniBand-based mechanism to enhance QoS in multipath routing protocols in MANETs
Date
 2018 
Authors
Zaghal, Raid
Salah, Saeed
Ismail, Mohammad
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Publisher
 In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility & Security 
Abstract
 Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) usually suffer 
from high packet loss and high link failure rates. These 
challenges usually increase congestion on some links while other 
links are almost free. In this paper, we propose a novel 
mechanism to enhance QoS in multipath routing protocols in 
MANETs based on the InfiniBand (IB) QoS architecture. The 
basic idea of our approach is to enhance the load balancing and 
thus reduce congestion on overloaded links. This mechanism has 
enabled us to (1) give critical applications higher priority when 
routing their packets across the network, (2) effectively manage 
frequent connections and disconnections and thus reduce link 
failures and packet loss rates, and (3) reduce the overall power 
consumption as a consequence of the previous gains. We have 
tested the scheme on the (IBsim) simulator and achieved 
significant improvements in QoS parameters compared to two 
well-known routing protocols: AODV and AOMDV. 
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Keywords
 MANET , InfiniBand , QoS , Multipath Routing , Simulation , Network Performance , Efficiency , Pathbits , VLANs 
Citation
 Zaghal, R., Salah, S., & Ismail, M. (2018, February). An InfiniBand-based mechanism to enhance QoS in multipath routing protocols in MANETs. In 2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.